I graduated with distinction in Polish Philology (specialising in teaching and journalism) and Cultural Studies (specialising in film studies and media studies), and in 2012, I obtained a Ph.D. in literary studies (based on a dissertation on the liberariness of literary works). Since 2011, I have been working at the Department of Literary Theory at the Institute of Contemporary Culture, University of Lodz (since 2011 as an assistant, since 2012 as an assistant professor). I am the author of the monograph “Liberackość dzieła literackiego” [“On Liberariness of Literary Works”] (2015) and over fifty articles in Polish, English and Spanish, published in journals and collective volumes. I also co-edited the book „Literatura prze-pisana II. Od zapomnianych teorii do kryminału” [„ Re-written literature II. From forgotten theories to crime fiction”] (2016).
I was the co-author of an innovative program for creative writing studies, and I also gained experience in teaching such studies in foreign centres (internship at Bath Spa University (UK)).
For years, I have been actively promoting electronic literature in Poland (which includes conducting workshops for teachers and classes for young people, and publishing popular texts on the latest literary forms). I also translate digital literature (I have translated, among others, the award-winning “Loss of Grasp” [“(Nie)panowanie”] by S. Bouchardon and V. Volckaert). I am a coordinator and/or supervisor of artistic literary projects, including those using the latest technologies (under my supervision, for example, were created: the printed gamebook “Kamienica”, a playable story by M. Rojewska and K. Mazerant (2014), or the locative narrative for smartphones “Dzieje jednego pocisku” by M. Dziedziela and Sz. Szul (2021)).
theory and history of literature, electronic literature, literature and new media, new media art, correspondance des arts, transmedia genology
My research interests include varieties of so-called textual materialism (including liberature) and electronic literature. I focus on contemporary changes in the perspective on categories such as the book, the act of reading, or literariness. I analyze the latest literary forms in the context of subsequent stages of development of the art of words. I also consider it crucial for my research to look at literature in a broader perspective and consider new literary phenomena against the background of evolutions observed in other arts.
Recently, I have been paying most attention to new forms of electronic literature (VR/AR/XR literature, location-based narratives, playable literature, smartphone book applications) and the use of new platforms for literature (e.g. Instagram, Google Maps, or WhatsApp). I am also interested in including the reader's body in the reading process and related revisions of the poetics of a literary work (e.g. the poetics of haptic texts).
My spectrum of interests also includes translating and archiving electronic literature and including it in curricula at various education levels.
My everyday university duties include conducting research (including individual/team projects), everyday work with students (conducting tutorials, exercises, workshops, seminars, and lectures), and organisational activities (drafting/correcting study programs, coordinating unit meetings, acting as a year tutor, and organising conferences).
CYCLICAL DUTYFRIDAY
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Pomorska 171/173 room: 3.09 90-236 Łódź